Each of these elements is well-adapted to address one or more of the specific needs and new challenges arising from pervasive and smart applications related to wireless networks and systems (WNS) in the 21st-century digital economy.

Industry-oriented projects

All the trainees will work on a partner-oriented project with a topic pre-approved in one of the three WNS-related research clusters: i) smart communications, ii) smart monitoring, and iii) smart management.

Industry-hosted internships

An industry-hosted internship will be a cornerstone component of this industrial stream program. Each student enrolled will undertake an industry-hosted internship of a total duration of 9, 6 and 4 months, at the PhD, MSc, and BSc levels respectively, representing 20% of the research training time in each program level.

Topical courses and seminars

In addition to over 40 regular courses offered by academic experts across the five participating universities, we also offer short semi-technical/professional-skill courses or seminars on the following 8 key topics among others:

Awareness raising and green ICT

Intellectual property

New application-specific environment challenges and assumptions

Regulatory policies & issues and market perspectives

R&D tools and instruments (lab course)

Standard-compliant link-/system-level simulators (lab course)

Standards & specifications

Systems integration challenges (lab course)

Workshops, panel discussions and summer school

Panel discussions with industrial collaborators will help students learn from their first-hand experience. And workshops and summer school will help them disseminate their research project results and further develop their presentation skills.

About us

PERSWADE (Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy) is a program aiming to prepare students for new technology challenges, new application-specific integration issues, and a new industry culture in the field of wireless networks and systems and its smart applications. The only one and very first of its kind, this interdisciplinary program is receiving upwards of $1.6 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), out of a budget of $3.8 million for 2013-2019.